This is the kind of meta that will raise folks' dander, but I mean it in all seriousness (and humility). Here is a list of recommended diaries as of 3:10 pdt
- Yves Smith: Fight Mtge Fraud! Call Your Att'y Gen'l Fe.3rd! [bobswern]
- Middle East Protests Mothership #11 Take Action! Updated 3X [Tahrir]
- Why People Hate Insurance Companies - CVS Caremark Run Around [Something the Dog Said]
- Texas Can't Generate Enough Power - Rolling Blackouts (Updates) [I Love OCD]
- Pooties and WPPR: Doing the Blizzard Boogie! [khloemi]
- Fox News: Biggest Ratings Loser of the New Year - Glenn Bck Leads the Way Down [King One Eye]
- DK4 Final Preparations Underway! [bubbanomics]
- Monster Cyclone Yasi Hits Queensland, Australia [Fish Out of Water]
On a day of numerous critical news events, and many other very interesting and unrecommended diaries, one the recommended diaries above is not like the others. It's the daily pootie diary. It does not belong on our list of recommended diaries.
In fact, I would argue that the Pootie diaries never belong on the Recommend List. This particular one, actually, has some news in it that the other 200,000 thousand of us might find interesting -- the Groundhog Day Blizzard. But at the end of the day, that news is ancillary to the dozens and dozens of prefab animal pictures and salutations.
Pootie diaries are posted daily and easily accessible to those anyone in the broader community who wants to join in, which hundreds of folks do, daily. Despite the interest and pleasure they generate, however, there is never anything in them deserves to be recommended for broader attention on a politics, current events and direct action blog.
So I want to ask the Pootie Diary community politely and sincerely NOT to recommend your daily diaries, so that diaries that deserve our widest attention by acclamation can be seen and read by as many of us as possible. It may be that DK4 will render this request moot, but in the interim -- and especially on Friday, which looks to be a wrenchingly important news day -- I hope you all will take my request at face value.
Many thanks, gang.
--Mogolori